I painted two designs for our New Year cards, with watercolor paint.
I used a masking pen.
Their sizes are 27x18cm, the same height/width-ratio as the cards will be (15x10cm).
It’s hard to scan watercolor paintings, so I spent quite some time with photo editing software to make the pictures look like the original paintings.
Yes, I like the first one best because of the ‘dancing’ numbers, but also because of the lighter blue around the numbers. I aimed for the same effect in the other one, that I painted first, but there my darker blues bled into it.
I love that every single one of us agrees that the dancing numbers feel more festive! That really shows what a small change in composition can do in artwork. Both paintings look very good, but one really screams party!!! and the other one is the grown-up in the room.